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As an established Korean International voice-over agency, Matinée Multilingual has been providing a professional Korean Voice-Over Service and Korean Subtitling Service for over 25 years. We offer a selection of the very best Korean voice-over talent, at a price you can afford.

Whether for documentary, advertising, eLearning, or IVR, we’ll help you select the best Korean voice-over talent for the job. We can record wild or sync to picture, and deliver the audio back in the file format of your choice, same day, via FTP. We can also lay-back the audio onto your video, and re-work the captions where necessary.

To calculate voice-over fees and recording costs click here. You will also find a lot of technical information here on our FAQs page.

To check the availability of our voice-artists and to confirm costs, please contact us using the quick Quote form opposite, and we'll respond within one hour. Or you can email project@matinee.co.uk or call on +44(0)118 958 4934.

Featured Korean Voice Talent

Jude

Jude is a native Korean voice artist, born and raised in Seoul. Whilst studying Chinese literature and interpretation she also worked as an announcer & DJ for the university radio station. Read more...

Mijoo

Mijoo is a female Korean voice over artist native to Seoul. She has a neutral Korean accent. Her natural voice is clear, calm and sincere but she can also be upbeat & cheerful if required. Read more...

Seong-Jae

Seong-Jae is a native Korean voice artist and speaks standard South Korean. He is bi-lingual and also speak English fluently. He has a variety of voice-over experiences reading in both languages. Read more...

Henry

Henry is a native Korean and Professional Voice Over with over 10 years’ experience. He has a natural warm tone and has used his voice for online games such as, The Walking Dead, Black Desert, Archeage. Read more...

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Female Korean voice artist for Windows Live Messenger video

Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger went through a number of changes in the years leading up to its retirement in 2013 to make way for Skype.

Back In 2011 we worked closely with Microsoft’s translation agency to produce a localised explainer video, ready for the launch of Windows Live Messenger 2011. The video was fully localised for 55 markets, and this case-study showcases the Korean version we produced for the South Korean market.

Microsoft wanted a friendly, bright and clear female voice and we cast Jude who is now one of our preferred Korean voice talents. The localised animation does an effective job of communicating the features of Live Messenger 2011 without boring viewers and we went on to produce many more projects for them.

A short history of the Korean language

Little is known about the early origins of the Korean language, although it is commonly assigned to the Altaic language family of central Asia, which includes Turkish and Mongolian.

Korean shares many linguistic features with Japanese, another language commonly – though by no means definitively – said to be part of the Altaic family. It was also influenced by Chinese (with many Chinese characters incorporated into the written language), although this belongs to a separate language family.

Han’gul, the Korean writing system used today, was devised during the reign of King Sejong (1397-1450). Its purpose was to overcome the restrictions of using Chinese to express the Korean language, by providing the Korean people with their own accessible, phonetic script.

There were, and still are, a number of regional dialects in Korea. After the capital was moved to Kaesong in the 10th century, the Kaesong dialect became the national standard. Although there are minor differences in the dialects spoken in North Korea and South Korea, both countries essentially adhere to the standards set out by the Korean Language Society in 1933. Read more

Which countries have Korean as a national language?

Korean is the official language of both South Korea (Republic of Korea) and North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea). It is also one of two official languages in China’s Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture.

How many people speak Korean as their first language?

It is estimated that over 75 million people speak Korean as their first language, including 48 million in South Korea, 24 million in North Korea, two million in China, one million in the United States and 500,000 in Japan and Russia.

There are other significant Korean-speaking communities in Singapore, Thailand, Guam and Paraguay.

Did you know…

South Koreans have a hybrid writing system which uses both Chinese characters (for words derived from Chinese) and han’gul (for Korean words). North Koreans have completely removed Chinese characters from their writing system and write everything – even Chinese-derived words – in han’gul.

Han’gul is said to be one of the most scientific phonetic alphabets ever devised. It comprises 40 characters, including 14 consonants, five double consonants, 10 vowels and 11 dipthongs. Korean is not a tonal language – there is little variation in pitch and phrases are evenly stressed.

Korean – along with Chinese, Japanese and Arabic – is ranked as one of the hardest languages in the world to learn.

The South Korean economy

South Korea’s market economy is the 15th largest in the world by nominal GDP. It is one of the G-20 major economies, and in 2010 Korea was the seventh largest exporter and 10th largest importer in the world.

South Korea is one of the Four Asian Tigers – countries with high-growth economies – together with Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. It is a member of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The North Korean economy

North Korea remains largely isolated from the world, which makes its economy difficult to assess. It is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world.

Testimonials

“We’ve used Matinée for several projects, from video editing to translations of marketing materials, and they’re always a great pleasure to work with. Any requests are answered right away. We’ve had tight deadlines, but we’ve never worried as the team at Matinée delivers great work, right on time.”

Lisa PotrawiakSinclair Pharma

The team at Matinée are fantastic to work with. They are really communicative, helpful and turned around the work as quickly as possible. I have no complaints at all and we will definitely be getting back in contact when we next need subtitles.

Jon MirleyThree Motion Media

I’ve worked with Matinee for well over 20 years, and continue to go back to them because of trust; a trust in their commitment to fulfilling the needs of my project, and a trust in the quality of their work.

Bruce CorbyMuddy Boot Productions

The quality has been excellent. The communication has been superb. It’s been a pleasure. And I say this from someone who suffered insanely poor experience of customer service and quality of product from a previous supplier. So thanks very much to you and your team for making it go so smoothly, I…

Steve FollandFreelancer producer

I use Matinee for a lot of subtitling projects and they never fail to meet the deadlines. Great customer service and fast responses.

Jade BurnellThe Big Word

We are very pleased with the completed voice-over work. The attention to detail in the studio was excellent.

Ken McintyreBible & Gospel Trust

On the three or four occasions I have used Matinee, I have always enjoyed an attentive service that never fails to meet my expectations.

Andy WoodruffCamberwell Studios

I think the different steps of the services were really good; finding the voice overs I was looking for, the admin, the help I needed to solve a last minute problem and the sound engineer’s contribution during the recording session.

Christine VandemoorteleFreelance Producer

Very helpful and pretty quick at completing projects.

Amarat SehgalHub TV & Bombora Medi

I have been working with Shauna on large e-learning voice-over and subtitling projects into German, Russian and US and UK English for over 5 years. Shauna has always been a pleasure to work with, and the quality delivered by Matinée is always spot on.

Frederic VallenetWHP International

I have to mention the quick response of Sally and Nicole on my request. They both understand the urgency of my need, and helped me complete the recording to hit my deadline.

Joville VillanuevaShell UK Ltd

Very pleased with a number of projects completed by Matinee. They are always well organised, providing clear expectations, organisation, efficiency and delivering a quality product on time. Recommended.

Jon WatkinsJon Watkins TV

A fantastic company to work with. Fast email responses, fast delivery of audio files and all with positive and warm personalities shining through!

Anne CrawfordDecide

The speed of response, friendly, and efficient service from all staff was quite exceptional. Matinee particularly stands out by putting the customer’s needs first, even when the job is relatively small and a bit of a technical challenge. I would strongly recommend Matinee for any subtitling work.